Congress Just Dropped a 269-Page AI Bill That Would Freeze Every State Law for 3 Years

Congress Just Dropped a 269-Page AI Bill That Would Freeze Every State Law for 3 Years

he Great American AI Act dropped Thursday — a bipartisan federal framework that would preempt California, Colorado, and every other state AI law for three years. Labor unions said hard no. Tech said yes. And the timing is deliberate: it lands 23 days before Colorado's AI law goes live. We break down what the bill actually requires, why it's controversial, and why Colorado's law applies June 30th regardless.

The SpaceX Roadshow Is Live. Morningstar Says It's Worth Half the Ask. Here's What Investors Need to Know.

SpaceX officially launched its roadshow yesterday — $135 per share, $1.75 trillion valuation, $75 billion raise, pricing June 11th. Morningstar values it at $780 billion — less than half the target. ARK Invest says $2.5 trillion by 2030. We break down the bull and bear case, cover OpenAI's Codex enterprise expansion this week, and preview Tim Cook's final WWDC keynote tomorrow.

Microsoft Just Declared AI Independence From OpenAI. Seven Models. No OpenAI Data. A Tenth of the Cost.

Microsoft unveiled seven in-house MAI models at Build — including MAI-Thinking-1, its first reasoning model built entirely without OpenAI distillation, matching Claude Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks at a tenth of GPT-5.5's cost. Mustafa Suleiman called it "long-term self-sufficiency." We break down what the MAI family actually is, cover Anthropic's Monday IPO filing at a $965 billion valuation, and preview Tim Cook's final WWDC keynote Sunday.

The SpaceX IPO Roadshow Is Live. Here's What Investors Are Actually Buying.

SpaceX begins its investor roadshow today targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation and $75 billion raise — the largest US IPO in history. We break down the four very different businesses inside SpaceX's S-1, the retail investor event on June 11th that's unlike anything ever done at this scale, and why the xAI segment is the question every institutional investor will be asking. Plus: GitHub Copilot's billing switch is generating a developer revolt, and Build Day 2 confirmed Claude in Azure AI Foundry.

Microsoft Just Cut the OpenAI Cord. GitHub Copilot Gets Its Own AI Model by August.

he biggest surprise at Microsoft Build was Project Polaris — Microsoft's own in-house coding model replacing GPT-4 Turbo in GitHub Copilot by August. Microsoft now controls the model, the inference infrastructure, and the developer experience end to end. We break down what Polaris is, what it means for teams building on Copilot SDK, and cover the full Build recap: open-source Windows Agent Framework, Copilot Workspace GA with autopilot mode, and DirectML 2.0.